{"id":534,"date":"2026-09-14T08:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=534"},"modified":"2026-09-14T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:41:47","slug":"click-bait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Click Bait"},"content":{"rendered":"Long ago I liked a Bing Crosby song that had this line in the lyrics:<br \/><br \/>Would you like to swing on a star, carry moon beams home in a jar, and be better off than you are, or would you rather be a fish.<br \/><br \/>This line came to me when I was thinking about the term &#8220;click bait.&#8221; The &#8220;fake news&#8221; created by Hollywood and social media is designed to grab your attention and make its creators money. The truthfulness of the content is of little or no concern. <br \/><br \/>Do we seek for the truth, or are we merely fish who take the bait.<br \/><br \/>Matthew 7:<br \/><br \/>13 \u00b6 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:<br \/><br \/>14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago I liked a Bing Crosby song that had this line in the lyrics: Would you like to swing on a star, carry moon beams home in a jar, and be better off than you are, or would you rather be a fish. This line came to me when I was thinking about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.mmmind.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}